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    Mayawati reached out to Muslims and upper castes promising to provide reservation for them if voted to power.

    Aspiring to form a Government at the Centre, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP supreme Mayawati reached out to Muslims and upper castes in Delhi by promising to provide reservation for poor among them if voted to power.

    Addressing her second rally in the capital where BSP has fielded candidates in all the 70 seats, she also said her party was committed to extend the quota regime to financially weaker sections of the upper castes as she sought to dispel the notion that BSP represented the interests of only backward castes.

    "We will provide reservation to poor Muslims if voted to power," she told a public meeting in Aligaon in south Delhi.

    "We are also in favour of providing reservation to the financially poor sections of the upper castes," said Mayawati, who returned to power last year in UP by successfully experimenting with a social engineering formula.

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    Accusing both the Congress and BJP of being "pro-rich," the Dalit icon said, these parties had always catered to the interests of industrialists and businessmen, on whose support they have thrived.

    "BSP, on the other hand, does not depend on this class and has a mass support base," she said vowing to replicate the formula of all-inclusive growth adopted by her party in UP.

    "We intend to bring to Delhi our policies of financial and social reform that we have followed in Uttar Pradesh," she said.

    QuotaBy: Avinash Baranwal | 25-Nov-2008 Reply | Forward How to determine who is poor?There are many Rich Farmers who hardly pay tax and their wards gets tuition fee wave off in school / colleges...So, how to make sure the genuineness of a candidate on economic ground?
    lack of leadersBy: Amol | 25-Nov-2008 Reply | Forward 61 years since Independence, such is the stature of Indian leaders, who promise , jobs based on caste!
    Maya on QuotaBy: SriAmerica | 24-Nov-2008 Reply | Forward Reservation and quota system have ruined India for several decades and these politicians are now out to destroy the whole country to meet their selfish ends! We can never progress as long as we have this kind of nasty political system in our country.
    Reservation to the deserving peopleBy: Giri | 24-Nov-2008 Reply | Forward I truly wish she loses out just for this reason. I am not opposed to reservation. If there was no reservation, there is no upliftment of the downtrodden people in India who deserve it for all their losses. Let us continue that for Dalits and MBCs. I think the BCs and OBCs have had it for long. If required they can have it for another decade but it has to end at some point for them. Otherwise they will continue to progress at the cost of Dalits and MBCs. Muslims also have to be provided the genuine opportunity for growth. But I truly believe that there has to be some sort of an endgame for the concept of reservation in India. Otherwise they will not truly raise to their potential.
    ReservationBy: Ajay | 25-Nov-2008 Reply | Forward Why people are opposing only caste based reservation??? Son/Daughters of politicians are getting elected easily...is not it also a kind fo reservation??? It would be great if all kind of reservation is eliminated. Opposing caste based reservation just indicate the mean thinking of certained class of society.
    quotas if voted to powerBy: Parminder Singh | 24-Nov-2008 Reply | Forward wonders of democracy never cease to amaze! thanks to dumb leaders like mayawati who speciialize in divide and rule!
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